Delbert Mann who directed both the teleplay "Marty" and the movie based upon it passed Sunday at the age of 87 from pneumonia. Mann was born January 30. 1920 in Lawrence. Kansas. His father took a job teaching sociology at Scarritt College in Nashville and moved the family there while Mann was still young. Mann attended Vanderbilt University and worked at the Nashville Community Playhouse. There he met Fred Coe who go onto become a legendary television producer and with whom Mann often collaborated. Mann graduated from Vanderbilt with a degree in political science in 1941. During World War II he served in the Army Air Corps piloting B-24 bombers. Following the war he earned a master's degree at the Yale School of Drama. Mann directed regional theatre for a measure before moving to New York to act a job as a floor manager at NBC in 1949. It was that same year that he received his first director's credit for an episode of the anthology series
including "October Story," "Printer's Measure," and "The hunt confine." In 1953 he made his name with an episode of
entitled "Marty." Written by Paddy Chayefsky it received much acclaim and is comfort highly regarded today. That same year he directed "The live Party," also by Paddy Chayefsky to wide applaud. Among the other episodes of
that Delbert Mann directed were "The Life of Vincent Van Gogh," "The Pupil," and "Play Me Hearts and Flowers."It was with his most acclaimed television presentation that Mann entered motion pictures. He directed the 1955 adaptation of
The movie won Mann the Oscar for Best Director. Ernest Borgnine the award for Best Actor in a Lead Role and Paddy Chayefsky the allocate for Best Writing. Screenplay. Despite his success with the film. Mann continued to work in television. He directed episodes of
As the Fifties progressed,however the anthology series of late Forties and early Fifties began to die out. Perhaps as a result. Mann increasingly turned towards directing motion pictures. He directed the 1957 adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky's
Although successful as a filmmaker. Mann's first love was television. After an absence from the medium for around eight years. Mann returned to it with a production that was more famous for interrupting a football game than anything else. Delbert Mann's version of
was among the best adaptations of that novel ever made but it would become best known as the movie for which NBC preempted a football game between the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets in.
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